How to know wether the client and server are connected to each other in Unity Networking

Question

Here I am creating a multiplayer game with Unity Networking. What I want is to start the game when both Server and client is connected. In my game I have 2 players one will act as a server who hosts the game and the other acts as a client who connects to that host with the servers IPAddress. So when both are connected and ready to play i want to start the game. Can anyone help me how can i get to know that both are connected.

Here is the code what I am using.

public NetworkManager manager;

public void startServerr()
{
NetworkServer.Listen(9000);
    NetworkServer.RegisterHandler(MsgType.Connect, OnConnected);
    NetworkServer.RegisterHandler(MsgType.Disconnect, OnDisconnected);
    NetworkServer.RegisterHandler(MsgType.Error, OnError);
    manager.StartHost();
}

public void connectToServer()
{
    manager.networkAddress = PlayerPrefs.GetString("oppPlayerIP");
    manager.StartClient();
}

public void OnConnected(NetworkMessage netMsg)
{
    Debug.Log("Client Connected");
}

public void OnDisconnected(NetworkMessage netMsg)
{
    Debug.Log("Disconnected");
}

public void OnError(NetworkMessage netMsg)
{
    Debug.Log("Error while connecting");
}

Programmer Programmer · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-08T07:57:52

You are currently using NetworkManager... If you prefer to use NetworkManager over NetworkServer and NetworkClient that requires manual registering of the events, then your script must inherit from NetworkManager.

Once you inherit from NetworkManager, you can then override and use OnClientConnect and OnServerConnect functions to check when client is connect to server and when server is connected to client respectively.

Here is an example:

public class NetTest : NetworkManager
{
    private NetworkManager manager;

    public void startServerr()
    {
        manager = this;
        manager.StartHost();
    }

    public void connectToServer()
    {
        //manager.networkAddress = PlayerPrefs.GetString("oppPlayerIP");
        manager.StartClient();
    }

    public override void OnClientConnect(NetworkConnection conn)
    {
        //base.OnClientConnect(conn);
    }

    public override void OnClientDisconnect(NetworkConnection conn)
    {
        //base.OnClientDisconnect(conn);
    }
    public override void OnServerConnect(NetworkConnection conn)
    {
        //base.OnServerConnect(conn);
    }

    public override void OnServerDisconnect(NetworkConnection conn)
    {
        //base.OnServerDisconnect(conn);
    }
}

You can find more network callback functions in the public function section here.

How to know wether the client and server are connected to each other in Unity Networking

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